Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.
‐‐ Henry Giroux
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
‐‐ George Orwell
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
‐‐ Michel Foucault
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
‐‐ C. Wright Mills
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
Power is paradoxical.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
‐‐ Henry Adams
Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
‐‐ Yoko Ono
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer
Power is the ability to get things done.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Power is the by-product of understanding.
‐‐ Jacob Bronowski
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
‐‐ Max Weber
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens
Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
‐‐ Ronald Lauder
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
‐‐ Jean Genet
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles
Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
‐‐ Eliot Spitzer
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
‐‐ Malcolm X
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
‐‐ Richard Dreyfuss
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
‐‐ Alexander Hamilton
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle
Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.
‐‐ Edwin Soeryadjaya
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
‐‐ M. J. Rose
Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
‐‐ Nate Powell
'Power Rangers' has changed a lot of lives.
‐‐ Jason David Frank
'Power Rangers' is a massive global brand, and we believe that filmmaker Dean Israelite's singular vision will not only thrill a generation of existing fans but will bring magic to a whole new global audience.
‐‐ Jon Feltheimer
Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig
Power's not what the Constitution was about.
‐‐ Roy Moore
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
‐‐ Dan Webster
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
‐‐ Herb Kelleher
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
‐‐ Maggie Kuhn
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
‐‐ John Acton
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia
Power tends to get confused with repression.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde